----- "Kenton Brede" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My question is, what's wrong with this setup? I ask this realizing > the smallness of our > operation makes me a little myopic. With a small operation, it is okay. With something larger, it doesn't scale well and it doesn't make good use of module grouping. For instance, when setting up openldap, I want to talk about what I do (packages I install, conf files I drop in, etc) all in one place so I can see what I do with openldap as a whole more easily. If it were broken out into several places based on OS type, it isn't quite as easy to ensure that each OS type is similar. For instance, on a debian box and a redhat box, I can look at classes.txt and see that openssh class is applied, so I know that I'm managing openssh on debian and redhat boxes, but with the other approach, I wouldn't be able to see that without digging into the debian.pp and redhat.pp files. And to the scaling point, we manage 2755 files so it would be difficult to manage manifests with all of that in one place. > > > The cfengine community was often hampered by a tendency to organize > by > > action type rather than functional role, so I consider it a kind of > > code smell in Puppet. > > Could you give a couple examples of what you mean by "action type" > and > "functional role?" > Thanks, > Kent An action type is like sort of like "what you do to a system." So, things like "install this file" or "install this package." Functional role is things like "manage openldap" or "ensure these users are present" which would in turn include actions like installing packages or files or setting up user preferences. -- Digant C Kasundra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Lead, ITS Unix Systems and Applications, Stanford University --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
